Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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THERE is only one female trombone
player in this country.
FASHIONABLE New York is running
mad over amateur theatricals.
A POLK COUNTY, Ga, man is living
pleasantly with his eighth wife.
TRAMPs are more numerous In Cali
fornia this year than ever before.
A LINCOLN. Ga, Ia mily had q birth,
q marriage and a death one day late
ly.
A NEGRO at Birmingham, Ala,
bears the name Of "Jack the Rab-
Bit"
Two sisters at Washington bear the
names OF Desire Moore and Plenty
Moore.
AN artesian we'll at st, Augustine,
Fla, throws up 100000 gallons of
sulphur water daily.
THE mission schools in Utah are
mostly supported by contributions
from Eastern states.
The reflective Utica Observer con-
cludes that Miss Nina Clarke Van
Zandt is hard up for husband.
JOHN JOHNSON, who died In Durham,
Me-, recently, aged 1O2, shaved HIM
self up to the day of his departure.
ICE-CREAM in the form of asparagus
and cauli-fower is anew feature of Co.
tham's gastronomic entertainments.
AWHITE man has just been convicted
of the murder of black man by q
| jury of white men at Orengeburg,
The girls OF Peru, ILL.,, are said to
have formed toboggan club, the
members of which slide down hill on
barrel slaves.
The new artesian we'll now being
bored at Charleston, s. O., is over L.
100 feet deep already, with dame
ter of II inches.
OUT Of every ten students who were
examined for Harvard last year, four
were admitted clear, five were con-
ditioned and one was rejected.
BOTH che Etruria and the Umbria,
OF the Cunard Line, have averaged III
nine transatlantic voyages a speed of
nearly twenty-one miles per hour.
A MAN who imagined himself q tele-
phone, and who has been trying for g.
year to shout "Hello!" in his own
ear, was sent to an asylum at Flat
bush, l.. |.
PROF. JOHN r. PROCTOR, the Ken
lucky geologist, says there is enough
good iron near Bowling Green, in that
state, to supply fifty furnaces for 200
years.
A YOUNG lady of Lynn, Mass, was
seriously poisoned by the arsenic
washed on her face from two birds on
her bonnet while she was riding during
q rainstorm.
A VISIT to the sewers of Paris was
feature OF press festival recently
held in that city. Five hundred per-
sons awaited themselves of the singu-
lar programme.
To evangelize 1, O2e, 100000 heath
en- and Mohammedans, who are in
creasing by natural birth at million
| g. year, Christendom has only about
5000 missionaries.
A LARGE cake of ice, cut from the
Illinois River near Ottawa, contained
the body of a man frozen in the mid
die of it. The dead man was Joseph
Johnson, of Peru, Ill.
Two women in Connecticut-Lucy
Luther, at Hadlyme, and Elizabeth
Buck, at Observation-Disclosures
their 1O3d birthday anniversaries,
within few days past.
A MONTANA convict recently put
some concentrated lye into the coffee
which he was ser wing to the prisoners,
and strange to say they thought it
was great improvement.
A NEGRO in Chester County, N. G.,
killed 1,2OO rabbits during the two
months ending January Is. The ami
mails were never before so numerous
as this year in that district.
THERE are 5000 INDECENT soldiers
and sailors who do not receive pen
sions who are supported In aims
houses and other public charitable in
situations OF the United States.
SALMON, once plenty in the Frazer
River, British Columbia, have desert
and Jar of railroad Or mill touches
tie banks and disturbs the river.
A NEW bath-hOuse at Berlin, which
is to combine ancient and modern
luxuries, will have laundry in which
guests can have their clothes washed
and ironed while they are bathing.
THE sheriff and his deputies tried to
hold the curtain at Cleveland thea
ter the other night, and they were
raised with it to the amusement of
the audience, who thought it a new
feature of the play.
THEchief usher at the White House
counts the number of people at the
receptions by means OF a noiseless
miniature bell punch. At a. late re-
ception by Mrs. Cleveland the instru-
ment registered /, $50 visitors.
A MAN in Banks County, Ca, ate
three rabbits, two squirrels and four
cartridges and washed it down with
six cups of coffee at one meal. He
considers two pounds of cheese, one
pound of crackers and a pint of whis-
KY good lunch.
BEARS are considered by employees
in geological gardens to be the most
treacherous of animals. They aret the
most uncertain in temper, and arethe
cause OF more deaths in menageries
and among showmen than lions or I'll